A wii media player, That works!

[Hg]

this is great, and it works!
its a sever based media player that runs off your pc and is used via opera.
The movies however have to be recoded to flash using the supplied software.
http://www.redkawa.com/mediacenters/wiimediacenterx/

*edit*
The movies in *.flv work great, haven't got the mp3 to work on the wii yet and as i cant be assed to move all my files i used a softlink to change the file locations using this (http://www.redkawa.com/forums/showthread.php?t=153)

[RocketKnight]

Saying it works is a bit strong in my opinion. Basically all they've done is bundled a Java web server with javascript to browse a directory. You click a link and the Flash code plays the file. What they didn't realise was the Wii doesn't use the latest version of Flash, and that they thought they'd be able to use LiveConnect for certain functionality (which they can't). Also, transcoding on the fly would be great. Converting my video collection into FLV is not great.

As for the music player, you might get better results coding it yourself. They haven't written the Flash themselves, they use:

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_MP3_Player

Just stick IIS on your Windows box, all you do is pass the Flash file the URL of the MP3 you want it to play.

[Zenith]

Someone on the Opera forums has been trying out combinations of software to get a working result.
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=170732

http://weezo.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=35#video
http://www.orb.com/

If Nintendo pull out their finger and use the WiiConnect24 to update the Flash version, then it will be much easier to stream video over a network smoothly.

[Drarok]

I wish they'd get MP3 functionality working. :(

[Elbonio]

I think they'll see there's enough demand to allow movie/mp3's to be streamed over a wireless network and will build it into the wii sometime in the middle of 2007 once the launch has died down.

[Drarok]

I've been helping out with WiiCR, it's another media solution. You can build playlists of movies or mp3s. Doesn't seem to like running on unix system yet, though.